Boys' name · since 1996
Kieler
64 babies named Kieler in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 64
- total births
- 1996–2020
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 66%
- born in that decade
Kieler is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 64 have been recorded since 1996.
Kieler has 64 recorded births among boys since 1996, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2020.
- 64 total births
- 1996–2020 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 66% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kieler's 64 recorded births place it above 55% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kieler's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kieler splits its recorded history at 2006: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1996 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2009 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kieler popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2020
- Peak year (2009)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
Kieler by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Kieler's strongest decade.
42 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 66% of all-time use.
Kieler births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 10
1990s
10 births
- 2000s
2000s
42 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s 7
2020s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 42 births (66% of all-time use).
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- Kieler's decade-level peak was the 2000s (42 total births); usage has since declined to 7 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1996–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kieler: Baby Name Since 1996 - 64 Births, Peak 2009." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kieler. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kieler draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.